Cuthbert Tunstall

Cuthbert Tunstall (1474-18 November 1559) was the Bishop of London from 1522 to 1530 (succeeding Richard Fitz-James and preceding John Stokesley), Prince-Bishop of Durham from 1530 to 1552 and from 1553 to 1558 (succeeding Thomas Wolsey and preceding James Pilkington), and Lord Privy Seal from 1523 to 1530 (succeeding Henry Marney and preceding Thomas Boleyn).

Biography
Cuthbert Tunstall was born in Hackforth, Yorkshire, England in 1474, the son of an esquire of the body of King Richard III of England. He was admitted to Balliol College, Oxford in 1491, and he became a scholar of King's Hall, Cambridge in 1496 and graduated from the University of Padua in 1505. In 1511, Archbishop of Canterbury William Warham made Tunstall his chancellor, and he became a canon on Lincoln in 1514 and Archdeacon of Chester in 1515. He was also employed as a diplomat under Cardinal Thomas Wolsey alongside Thomas More, and he was made Master of the Rolls in 1516, Dean of Salisbury in 1521, Bishop of London in 1522, Lord Privy Seal in 1523, and Prince-Bishop of Durham in 1530. Tunstall acted as a counselor to Queen Catherine of Aragon during her divorce from King Henry VIII, but he would break from his colleagues in acquiescing with many of Henry's reforms. He was deprived of his bishopric from 1552 to 1553 for opposing King Edward VI of England's religious policies, but Queen Mary I of England reappointed him, and he ruled his diocese in peace. In 1559, he was deprived of his diocese for refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy under Queen Elizabeth I of England, and he died that same year.